Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. One thing about we humans is that we tend to rush in and end up overcrowding something good because we all want that for ourselves and our loved ones. Before the evolvement of technology, we had all been very comfortable with on-site jobs and jobs that required us to show up daily, and we showed up daily without even complaining because at that point we did not have any other option. But technology evolved and has given us options, and now that only option we were once comfortable with, we no longer want, and now everybody wants to work from home and nobody is comfortable with on-site jobs anymore.
Today, 8 out of every 10 persons are either planning to go into tech so they can work from home, or they are already in it so they can work from home and be their own boss. As much as that is good, it is only a matter of time before we will have more employees and fewer employers, therefore affecting the respect and pay that come with remote jobs. As much as I also love the idea of working from home and not having to deal with the outside world every day of your life, we humans are starting to overcrowd that space and it is only a matter of time before it is completely filled or completely loses its value.
I have seen quite a lot of motivational speakers encouraging people to go into tech and work from home and not be scared or discouraged by the population or number of people already in the space, using the saying that "the sky is big enough for every bird to spread their wings and fly" to back up their stand. That is just a saying, and no doubt that the sky is big enough, but trust me, the number of employers who need remote workers is not that much, and that saying does not really hold water in this case. You need people who are into remote jobs to tell you their story and ordeals before they were able to secure one job despite their expertise.
In economics, we were taught that once supply exceeds demand for any commodity, the price of that commodity is affected negatively and the value drops, and it is the same thing in almost every aspect of our lives as humans. We have more people rushing into wanting to work remotely alongside those who are already there, whereas the number of employers moving in that direction is way smaller than the number of employees trooping in. Then it is only a matter of time before remote jobs start paying peanuts because there will be a surplus of workers with just a few employers, and for that reason they price your service however they seem fit because they can easily turn to someone else and they might accept to get it done at the rate you declined because it is not worth your service.
It will take time, but in the nearest future a lot of people will be forced out of remote jobs to go look for on-site jobs because remote jobs are no longer the treasure they thought they were, just because they became oversaturated and lost their value.
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